The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 43

And as he is in this town, let an usher go with you at once in search of him."

Who acts: barber, you, usher · What happens: be, let, go, search · To what, where: search, barber

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barber, you, usher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	7 town	case
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 town	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 town	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 town	punct
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 usher	det
11	usher	usher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	nsubj
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 go	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 go	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 search	case
18	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 search	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	barber			as this town	tree rules
2	let	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
3	go	infinitive	a usher		search of barber	with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary
4	search			barber			nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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